Contacts and Speakers
Contacts for Particle Physics Research Groups in the UK
Below is a list of contacts for PP research groups who can help by providing an opportunity to schools to visit university research scientists and departments working on projects connected to the LHC, and help enrich an activity connected with a planned school visit to CERN or upon return.
All the Particle Physicists on the list below are happy to give talks to schools or other groups. If you would like to invite them to give a talk, please contact them directly.
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| Name | Institute | Telephone | Other Details / Title of Talk |
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| Richard Kenway | Edinburgh |
0131 6505245 |
Computer Simulation of Elementary Particles |
| Rebecca Crawford | STEMPOINT Scotland | 0141 3306396 | Can arrange talks in Scotland |
| Victoria Martin | Edinburgh | 0131 6517042 | |
| Alan Walker | Edinburgh | 0131 650 5237 |
Particle Physics for Scottish Schools (PP4SS) Exhibition |
| Chris Parkes | Glasgow & CERN | 0141 330 5885 +41 22 76 72309 |
It's the end of the world as we know it: The start of the LHC |
| Name | Institute | Telephone | Other Details/Title of Talk |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Stirling |
Cambridge (but does talks in Northern Ireland) |
01223 337083 | Particle Physics and the LHC |
| Name | Institute | Telephone | Other Details / Title of Talk |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Bowdery | Lancaster | 01524 61678 | The Higgs Boson and the Origin of Mass |
| Tim Greenshaw | Liverpool | 0151 7943383 | |
| Hywel Owen | Manchester - main contact | 01925 603797 |
From splitting the atom to cures for cancer: a tour through the world of particle accelerators |
| Roger Barlow | Manchester | 0161 275 4178 | High Energy Physics Today |
| Fred Loebinger | Manchester | 0161 275 4180 | Quarks and Gluons - The Story of Elemental Particle Physics |
| Name | Institute | Telephone | Other Details / Title of Talk |
|---|---|---|---|
| Durham | 0191 334 3653 | General Particle Physics Talks - suitable for 6th formers | |
| Pete Edwards | Durham | 0191 334 3782 | Talks suitable for key stage 3,4 and sixth form students Topics include: |
| The Big Bang Machine | |||
| Mined Over Dark Matter | |||
| What Are We Made Of? | |||
| The Dark Side Of The Universe | |||
| Nigel Glover | Durham | 0191 334 3602 | The hunt for the Higgs - suitable for 6th formers |
| Frank Krauss | Durham | 0191 334 3751 | General Particle Physics Talks - suitable for age 14 upwards |
| Peter Richardson | Durham | 0191 334 3764 | General Particle Physics Talks - suitable for 6th formers |
| Name | Institute | Telephone | Other Details / Title of Talk |
|---|---|---|---|
| Susan Cartwright | Sheffield | 0114 222 4572 | A talk through the Universe (Key Stage 1 and 2) |
| Dark Matter the Stuff of the Universe | |||
| Diving for Neutrinos: Neutrinos and the origin of cosmic rays |
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| The Ideas of Particle Physics | |||
| Quantum Physics | |||
| Neil Spooner | Sheffield | 0114 222 4422 | |
| Lee Thompson | Sheffield | 0114 222 4577 | Particle Astrophysics Neutrino Astronomy Cosmic Rays Dark matter and ANTARES: Diving for WIMPs! |
| Chris Booth | Sheffield | 0114 222 3541 | |
| Ed Daw | Sheffield | 0114 222 4353 | |
| Stathes Paganes | Sheffield | 0114 222 4352 | |
| Davide Costanzo | Sheffield | 0114 222 4549 | |
| Sean Pailing | Sheffield | 0114 222 4270 | |
| Dan Tovey | Sheffield | 0114 222 3546 | |
| Vitaly Kudryavtsev | Sheffield | 0114 222 4531 |
| Name | Institute | Telephone | Other Details / Title of Talk |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Bailey | Cambridge | 01223 337434 | |
| Andy Parker | Cambridge | 01223 337324 | |
| James Stirling | Cambridge | 01223 337083 | Particle Physics and the LHC |
| Ed Copeland | Nottingham | 0115 9515 164 |
From Quarks to Galaxies |
| Anne Green | Nottingham | 0115 8467 902 | Searching for Dark Matter Is Cosmology a science? |
| Antonio Padilla | Nottingham | 0115 8467 903 | Parallel Worlds |
| Ian Kenyon | Birmingham | 0121 414 4627 | |
| Pete Watkins | Birmingham | 0121 414 4625 | |
| Cristina Lazzeroni | Birmingham | 0121 414 4614 | |
| Paul Newman | Birmingham | 0121 414 4617 | |
| Gary Barker | Warwick | 02476 523399 | |
| Steve Boyd | Warwick | 02476 573876 | |
| Tim Gershon | Warwick | 02476 523778 | |
| Paul Harrison | Warwick | 02476 572942 | |
| Yorck Ramachers | Warwick | 02476 573878 |
| Name | Institute | Telephone | Other Details / Title of Talk |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Alton | University of Wales, Swansea | 01792 295738 | |
| Graham Shore | University of Wales, Swansea | 01792 295737 | The LHC @ CERN - what do we hope to find and when? |
| Tegid Wyn Jones | University College London | 020 76797150 | Welsh language a speciality |
| Name | Institute | Telephone | Other Details / Title of Talk |
|---|---|---|---|
| Helen Heath | Bristol | 0117 9288 714 | Small is beautiful: A look at size from us to the proton |
| Hunting in the Higgs: The large Hadron Collider at CERN and how it aims to discover the origin of mass |
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| Vincent Smith | Bristol | 0117 9288 740 | Quarks and Leptons: The Standard Model of Elementary Particle Physics |
| Relativity and the Twin Paradox | |||
| Wave Particle Duality: Is the electron there when you are not looking? |
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| The Higgs Boson and other things we don't know yet | |||
| Matter and Anti-matter | |||
| What Time is it on Mars (How to measure time on earth and other planets) |
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| Nick Brook | Bristol | 0117 954 6877 | |
| Joel Goldstein | Bristol | 0117 928 8772 | |
| Greg Heath | Bristol | 0117 9255 624 | |
| Dave Newbold | Bristol | 0117 9288 770 | |
| Jonas Rademacker | Bristol | 0117 3317 904 | |
| Martin Lavelle | Plymouth | 01752 232729 | What's the Matter with Anti-matter? |
| From the Light Bulb to Quantum Computing - 100 years of Quantum Mechanics |
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| 50 years of strangeness | |||
| Chocolate, Mirrors and the Speed Of Light |
| Name | Institute | Telephone | Other Details / Title of TalK |
|---|---|---|---|
| David Miller | University College London | 020 7679 7152 | The Sex-Life of the Proton |
| Cosmic Etiquette | |||
| Z, LEP and the Universe | |||
| Jon Butterworth | University College London | 07977 444137 | Atlas and the LHC |
| Nikos Konstanidis | University College London | 07789 976563 | Higgs Bosun |
| Mark Lancaster | University College London | 07855 472095 | The Unknowns of Particle Physics |
| Ryan Nichol | University College London | 07855 299171 | Particle Physics in Antarctica Cosmic Ray and Neutrinos |
| Ken Peach | Oxford University and Royal Holloway, University of London | 01865 273312 | Much Ado About Nothing - Particle Physics and the Vacuum |
| Nigel Smith |
The STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory |
01235 445782 | Dark Matter and the Search for WIMPs in the UK |
| Chris Damerell |
The STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory |
From Penguins to WIMPS: Travels of a Particle AstroPhysicist |
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| Bob Brown |
The STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory |
01235 446216 | |
| Stephen Haywood |
The STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory |
01235 446761 | What Makes the World Tick |
| William Murray |
The STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory |
01235 446256 | The Search for the Higgs Boson |
| What You Need to Know About Quantum Mechanics |
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| Particle Physics Today | |||
| Mike Green | Royal Holloway University of London | 01784 443454 | What is the Matter? Where is the Antimatter? |
| Hugh Shanahan | Royal Holloway University of London | 01784 443433 | |
| Peter Kalmus | Queen Mary, University of London | 020 78825042 |
Particles and the universe Antimatter The forces of nature Mirror images, antimatter and time reversal |
| Paul Kyberd | Brunel University | 01895 266801 | Working at CERN |
| Darkness Visible Neutrinos and Conservation Laws |
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| CP Violation and the Origin of Matter | |||
| Steve Lloyd | 020 78825057 | The Data Deluge and the Grid | |
| Sanjaye Ramgoolam | Queen Mary, University of London | 020 78825047 |
String Theory and Hidden Dimensions of Spacetime Duality between Gravity and Light in String Theory |
| Elliot Leader | Imperial College London | 020 7594 7808 | |
| Ken Long | Imperial College London | 020 7594 7812 | |
| Igor Liubarsky | Imperial College London | 020 75947878 | |
| Todd Huffman | Oxford University | 01865273333 | If Particle Physicists are not really interested in particles, just what ARE they interested in? |
| Gerald Myatt | Oxford University | 01865 273381 | Dark Matter in the Universe |
| Hans Kraus | Oxford University | 01865 273361 | |
| Tony Weidberg | Oxford University | 01865 273370 | Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Quarks - But Were Afraid to Ask |
| Alan Barr | Oxford University | 01865 273636 | Atom smashing - the world's biggest experiment |
| Brian Foster | Oxford University | 01865 273323 | Superstrings Einstein's Universe |
| Nick Evans | Southampton | 023 80592093 | |
| Jonathon Flynn | Southampton | 023 80592093 | |
| Steve King | Southampton | 023 80592093 | |
| Stefano Moretti | Southampton | 023 80592093 | |
| Tim Morris | Southampton | 023 80592093 | |
| Chris Sachradja | Southampton | 023 80592093 | |
| Antonella De Santo | University of Sussex | 01273 678115 | The Big Bang Experiment |
| Fabrizio Salvatore | University of Sussex | 01273 678749 | |
| Simon Peeters | University of Sussex | 01273 678128 |
What is particle physics and why should we do it? Captain Neutrino |
| Darren Baskill | University of Sussex | 01273 872815 |